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Comments (9)
Undisclosed End User #1
IPVM, great job covering topics that are important to our industry.
Before I comment any further, I'm going to switch over to SSI's website and read more about this blow to Hikvision... (never to return)
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John Tran
This hearing did not talk about any discussion about national security threat US may face because of Chinese government ownership of Hikvision. The comment about 40% ownership made it sound like the security flaw is due to the fact that the company was owned by Chinese government.
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John Honovich
Update: SIW did a post covering this: Congressional committee confronts effects of cyber crime on small businesses, key quote from Hikvision's Chuck Davis:
That is a fascinating perspective since simply having a magic string backdoor raises grave concerns about the company's lack of commitment or competency in cybersecurity. Also, the reason Hikvision released the fix so soon was because we told Hikvision that IPVM was going to report on it immediately in March.
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